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ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' (arstechnica.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with Privacy International, a similar organization based in the United Kingdom, have now sued 11 federal agencies, demanding records about how those agencies engage in what is often called "lawful hacking." From a report: The activist groups filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and nine others. None responded in a substantive way. "Law enforcement use of hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy," the ACLU argues in its lawsuit, which was filed Friday in federal court in New York state. "Hacking can be used to obtain volumes of personal information about individuals that would never previously have been available to law enforcement."
*crickets*
No doubt. Pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan RIGHT AFTER PUTIN SUGGESTED IT was kind of obvious also. Unfortunately for Trump, the special counsel isn't furloughed or delayed by the shutdown. They're working all winter lol.
In America, in the last 2 years, we have learned that there is no way information cannot be used in a non-partizan way.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
"The First Amendment to the Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content." = A website Lorem-slogan, IS NOT their actual policy or history, and certainly not the truth of the Constitutional protections.
You're conflating their website with the legal specifics. That's not going to prove anything. If you need to test this, go shout bomb threats in an airport and find out.
No one will defend you on 1st Amendment grounds from the FAA fine and/or imprisonment, because your oversimple understanding does not actually apply like that.
https://www.theatlantic.com/id...
When someone stands accused of sexual assault in criminal court, does the ACLU believe in the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard merely because that is what the Constitution requires, or because it is better to leave some guilty people unpunished than to punish many innocents? “The old-school ACLU knew there was no contradiction between defending due process and ‘supporting survivors,’” David French writes. “Indeed, it was through healthy processes that we not only determined whether a person had been victimized, but also prevented the accused from becoming a ‘survivor’ of a profound injustice.”
Says the criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield:
In other words, speech that is not particularly controversial and thus never needed protection.
I read the summary of this article and read the previous summary and...
The US and the rest of the "free world" (such as it is) is bitching and moaning about APT10, a so-called hacking collective. Whilst the "free world" goes on hacking sprees against their own citizens (five-eyes, etc).
It's not about catching criminals (the ACLU is falling into the semantics trap). It's about "instant dossiers" on people who might upset "the system" - i.e., the incumbent powers that be. Everyone has skeletons, and without "second chances" (the US since its founding had been the land of second chances - ability to re-invent oneself, until recently, with this data collecting bullshit tied to Real ID), there is not a politician in the US that can effect change.
The future is a mishmash of Big Brother, Little Brothers (private companies collecting data to sell you things, for example) Brave New World, and GATTACA, in the worst possible way. Because every time I think something has gotten as worse as it can get, it gets worser by orders of magnitude, so my ruminations here and in my head can't possibly imagine the tyrannical dystopia coming down the road.
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https://www.bartleby.com/73/15...
"This tribble is dead, Jim" -- Dr. McCoy
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BMO
Permission of the target that is. For one thing, all reasonable standards of evidence go out the window. That invites planting evidence. And since the feds are in no way morally superior to other people (if anything, they are significantly less moral), it will happen and in many cases the victim will not be able to mount an effective defense. The second problem is that people that need to fear being hacked in this way (and everybody not perfectly boring needs to) will self-censor. That is the death of civil society.
Of course, authoritarians of all colors, and especially the religious fuckups, will welcome that. Individual thoughts? We cannot have that! These people may find out that all authoritarian legends are just smoke and mirrors! And where do you find most authoritarians? Right, in government service. Because that is what they crave: Universal order, enforced by as much violence as needed. No deviations. No disruptions. No progress. No individuality.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Pulling out, what are you saying, the US should stay until Syria and Afghanistan are what totally knocked up, another series of baby terrorist organisation born to keep the forever war going. What the fuck are they doing in Syria in the first place, what problems have they ever solved in Afghanistan, the problem the US created in the first place and bragged about it. So destroy Afghanistan as a modern society and keep doing it there in after, why, what is the purpose, what problem is being solved. We all know what problems are being created and exacerbated but tell us what problems are being solved by continuing to fuck over Syria and Afghanistan and we have all heard how it props up war industrial complex profits, I mean they actually brag about it and call it a feature but yeah the majority of people don't and call it seriously insane psychopathic shit to kill people for profit.
So what Chrissie presents will the US government and the US people be delivering to Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Libyans, Yemenis, Somalians, Pakistani's, Chrissie bombs, feel good bombs, health care bombs (euthanasia as freedom from the suffering caused by the sheer unadulterated greed of the US).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen